Category: Design Inspiration

We’ve written a couple of these Beyond Architecture inspiration posts in the past and the responses have been a lot of fun! Yes, in case any of you are wondering, we are actually inspired by things other than architecture too! Admittedly, there are still a few photos of architecture below, but those are inspiring for other reasons.

Last week my team and I attended the CRAN Symposium in Scottsdale, Arizona and we had a blast! Studio MM at Taliesin West by Frank Lloyd Wright CRAN, which stands for Custom Residential Architect’s Network, is a “Knowledge Community” of the AIA (American Institute of Architects)  for residential architects to get together and do what

This week’s design inspiration is one I’m happily adding to my future house bucket list! A true modern wine cellar, a wine display cabinet, or a wine room? – Whatever we want to call it, the concept is the same, but there are many variations in design. Below are a few of the images we

A perfect post for celebrating Summer!… We are designing a home for a client who is planning to spend a lot of weekends cooking outdoors. Looking through the images we’ve collected for inspiration, I have to admit I have a bit of Outdoor Kitchen Envy. Who wouldn’t want to spend a summer evening hanging out in any of these amazing outdoor

House of the Day Inspiration –  2019 Favorites A few years ago we started contributing to a group “archi-challenge” with other small firm residential architects. Once a week, we each share a House of the Day on social media as a way to celebrate architecture and encourage engagement with other small architecture firms. Over the

As our project for Campion Farms moves forward, we thought we’d share some of the design inspiration behind one of its top-wish-list features – a modern screened-in porch. Particularly during the summer in the Northeast, screened-in porches can be the most lived in part of the home. As spaces that are neither entirely interior nor

Often the best way for us to communicate, whether it’s with a client or within the office, is through images. Sometimes it’s a quick sketch on the back of a napkin or a simple line drawing to describe a detail – no matter what the medium, when I’m talking about architecture, “A picture is worth a

We are currently working on 3 modern home renovations and have been collecting images of Mid-century Modern designs for inspiration. Below we’re sharing a few that keep coming up as “likes” for us and our clients. (I do certainly realize we’ve left out some of the classic and beautiful Mid-Century Modern homes /architects from this group, but since these

We’ve had a recent fascination in our office with tower houses because of 2 new designs we are working on… For both projects, our goal is to minimize footprint and maximize view. The schematic designs have evolved into an aesthetic similar to an extruded cube, so you may notice that theme in our inspiration images below. We also shared a lot of

We are working on a couple of small projects at the moment for which the idea of a modern sleeping loft has come up as inspiration for our designs. One is a Mini Modern Home we talked about on the blog a few weeks ago. The other is for a client who wants to keep